Tag Archives: Public Citizen

September 17th Is Constitution Day

Posted on September 16, 2025 by Trish Nelson

September 17 is Constitution Day. It’s the day that marks the birth of American democracy — the day that the foundational rules of our rights and freedoms were signed into law. But Constitution Day is about more than just history. … Continue reading →

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Proposed Amendments To The Continuing Resolution

Posted on October 3, 2015 by Dave Bradley

Teabaggers dreams were quashed Wednesday afternoon when the US House passed the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government for another 2 months. The bill was described as a “clean” bill – that is it had no amendments. That was … Continue reading →

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A Dose of Citizens United Reality

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Paul Deaton

Writing in The Nation, John Nichols put the best possible face on what he described in as, “the broad-based national campaign to enact a constitutional amendment to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court rulings that ushered in a new era of … Continue reading →

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